Chapter 2
so when the five of them got out of the airport and they got to their rental car cuz honestly they just rented the car real quick and they didn't even have a driver this time so Frost jumped in the driver's seat they all threw their gear in they all headed to the cast cuz they were told that the castle had rooms that they could use a while back they had people living there while they were building and repairing and all that also each one of the Senators the people that were working on the project on their end if they had any more stuff to get done like new hardware stuff stuff that wasn't ever done because they never got past the initialization Point basically they're kicking everybody's bees nest and telling them to get their s*** together cuz the system was up and running so software that was never installed or even given out copies of that we were supposed to be like copies of version 2 version 42 is now being given out so we paid for a nice little copy back in the name we got a nice big copy Now API stuff that was a little bit ready back in the day was now seriously ready and ready to go so all these groups and people were being told to get their asses down to the castle and security keys for being given out so this was becoming a little bit of a technical Fortress honestly like they even shut down the the Museum Part and just let them do repairs because they're like no don't worry about the cost of the place right now we just needed a little more Safety and Security people are coming in to do work for our safety just don't let the public in and we'll get this place up and running and it was like the place is getting seriously deep cleaned and everybody was on cloud nine and no one actually knew how everything was getting organized so quickly it was just text messages and emails and people were just being told what was going on and it was like a beehive had been kicked cuz the castle was alive with people even music could be heard here and there
where they finally arrived and they saw all this they realized that maybe that they might not want to be staying here overnight because of all the people that were working here so they we're about to go find the caretaker for the building and get access and figure out where to go and all that when Frost and all the other centers phones literally beep beep beep
they all look down and what they saw was a three-dimensional map and is three dimensional map showed where they're exact location was like they could tell like zoom in and everything and it was using the government software so there was no buttons right now it was just you couldn't move away from this so it said go to this pin on a map and it was underground and it told him which stores go through so they literally just follow the map and as it got to electronically locked door it would auto unlock for them not even because they're getting close to just they would unlock an open and they walk right through and they would close the lock behind them like this was a nice setup
as they started going through it looked like concrete and this was all the renovations that were done they put hallways in walls so they can have rooms and passages so now they're starting to go down not a spiral staircase of any sort but it's just kind of like a ramp that just a long hallway but it kind of turns and twists and in the end they come to a couple more doors that lets write through and then into this giant open area that's a glass box that has one really big computer in the middle and then four walls are all surrounded by this system and it's computer and racks and systems and it's beautiful.
When you walked into the room you're actually walking on the ceiling of this glass room so underneath your feet was all of this and rate in front of them in this glass box on top of the computer system like we're talking 40 ft by 50 ft big like huge glass box was a pedestal and it had a monitor on it
as they walked up to the monitor a :-) appeared and said hello I am the castle Frost Senator Frost please come forward
Frost stepped forward it was about 3 ft away from the screen and the screen said stop
please Place both hands at your side and look at the monitor
as he did a light from above scanned him as a three-dimensional model
that model appeared on the screen the screen then said the following words
“ please raise your right hand and repeat after me I Senator Frost Woodrow hereby understand by turning on this system you are commissioning a possible life form to turn off the system maybe a tune to murder at this time do you agree to turn on this system with the understanding that you may have to do this and it will be your responsibility to do this not the next Senators but yours you will be attached to this program until it either it's turned off or you pass away and then at that time someone else will be given this responsibility”
this took Frost back a little bit and even the other senators were a little Shook and he looked back at them and they all just kind of were like happy weirded out sad and freaked out all at the same time and they were all just emotional messes at this point but Woodrow look back at the screen raise his right hand and said I hereby commission the castle turn yourself on now”
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the castle accepted that and then ask this question” do you approve access to all API and softwares”
with his hand still raised frosted I agree for all API and softers to be activated”
next the castle asked do you wish to have this system access the internet?
from smiled and said I will down the road but at this time no I do not want to have you to access the internet until you can reach 90 to 99% at that point I will ask you to re-ask me to give you permission at that time we want to make sure that most of the issues with your coding is fixed before we let you on the internet
a prompt on the screen came up and it just said internet temporarily disabled till 90 or 99% based on administrative discretion
the next question the frost wasn't expecting but he just instantly said yes so fast when he saw it appear on the screen still with his hand in the air
“ the system has been in safe mode at 10% for boot up to this point do you give permission to put the system under stress test to see if we can reach the full amount of 63% possibility
the moment it turned on the floor the building the hum that came as the fans picked up you could hear the AC system outside the cooling tower that they had to put in that had been put in and had been tested and maintained but had never been put under stress the water that you could hear being pumped through the pipes or whatever the chemicals were instantly the system ramp down because it could tell that something was wrong and it put in request for maintenance checks on the cooling system because it's cooling system wasn't ramping properly and it literally sent this to the different phones in the room
the next thing that happened was all the phones all Got the same message” this group is the core of the castle the round table all error messages text messages or anything that relates to the functionality of the castle will be sent to the Round Table any decisions will be sent to the director not the king the AI has recognized that and change the designation to director from King and the other senators are members of the Round Table for major decisions it takes a majority or a director's direct approval to shut down the castle can only done by the director
current error cooling system blockage detected requesting maintenance on cooling system before stress test can be accomplished system will now go into system software and API development mode until user has indicated that maintenance has been performed and test for stress can be commenced again
for clarification there is also a maintenance team that has been initiated into the government mode no one else other than if the president comes down will be initiated in but if the president does come down he will be put into the Round Table as the president above the director in the chain of command.
Funny enough at that point the computer said that a call from the president of the United States was actually trying to be made through normal means but due to the security it wasn't able to penetrate but was being recorded and was being redirected through the secure system to his phone and he wasn't allowed to not pick it up so it was Auto picking up in five four three two one
and there on the screen was a little line and the voice of the president United States coming through saying hello Senator are you there?
yes Mr President thank you for your calling us back so quickly I have just gone through the initiation of the castle and basically I've told it not to go on the internet but to get itself up and running and it's going to try but we're also having some mechanical issues but it looks like it's actually core green and we're doing our tests would you be interested in coming let's say one week to a month from now down to get initiated as the president in the software system or would you like to come down right away for this we're still kind of working with the bugs
well that's great to hear Frost you're doing a great job okay give me a shout when you think I should come down because I'm kind of busy so work with my stuff book a time and we'll get me down there how how invasive is the initiation into the system and what is it actually for tail
before Frost could say anything the arcs voice came in and said hello Mr President my name is Castle I am an artificial intelligence meant to make it so that you can communicate with all your people I recommend you have someone come down with one or two cell phones or connect online through a secure portal with those phones so we can upgrade the software on the phones and then you don't need to come down what you need to come down for will happen between 1 week and 3 weeks once we go online the moment that Frost realize that they had been kind of smoothing over a kind of giant flaw in the logic here
Frost just cut Castle off and said hey Castle how can they go to a website if you don't have web access
and both the president and frost stopped and listened to Castle cuz it was a good question and they weren't expecting the answer
I had one of the IT personnel build me a website just for this purpose in case of emergencies and I gave them software to put there so that they can connect up once you're connected you're not going through the internet you're going through a Subspace tunnel I've actually created in the information Network that's all I make it secure once you leave the normal Network you can't be traced into my network
basically I made a technical black hole I shove the data through the black hole and out the other side where when people put stuff in it only goes in I'm the only one that can take stuff out
this level of security was Way Beyond anything that They had dealt with before and this kind of freaked out the president being that he was very much not into the high-end technology stuff so he basically said not Allah I'll give it some time I'll send some people down to learn about it and we'll get one of the phones set up but other than that I'm going to wait to get a better report on this okay guys
and with that Frost realized that this was scaring the president's a bit and he was backpedaling so process went yeah you got it sir I'm going to work on that and we'll come talk to you in a couple of days I'll come see you okay
the president was like yes that sounds like a great idea I'll see you when you get here goodbye
and with that the political machine would now have to learn how to be political with the machine that is political
that's a long winded way to say that the AI now needed to learn how to handle people and politics !!!!!!!!!!